Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Tennis News

At Junior Fed Cup Asia Oceania Final-Qualifying - u16, New Delhi, India

Group D
(4) India bt (7) Korea 2-1
[WS2] MAHAK JAIN (IND) bt EUNHYE LEE (KOR) 61 57 61
[WS1] SATHWIKA SAMA (IND) l SOHYUN PARK (KOR) 57 46
[WD] MAHAK JAIN (IND)/ SATHWIKA SAMA (IND) bt EUNHYE LEE (KOR)/ SOHYUN PARK (KOR) 3-2 retd.

We were lucky as Korean pair retired from the doubles match but other hand I m thinking they deliberately tanked this match to avoid playing 2nd seed Aussie girls in the quarters ... In Group B, 8th seed Thailand scored upset win over 2nd seed Australia ... So our girls meeting 2nd seed Aussie girls for qualifying for World group and 7th seed Korea is facing 8th seed Thailand girls ... Interestingly 3rd seed Taipei lost their match against 5th seed Chinese girls ... So 3rd seed Taipei girls r facing top-seed Japanese girls in other quarter-final.

In our match Mahak gave winning start for us after beating Korean Eunhye Lee in three sets ... But Korean top player Sohyun Park defeated our top player Sathwika Sama in straight sets ... In the doubles Korean pair retired after playing five games.


At € 4.09M Monte Carlo Masters, Monte Carlo, Monaco

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Alexander Peya (AUT) 75 75

[QF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs (4) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)

Tight straight sets win for Rohan-Florin ... In both sets our pair took crucial break in 12th game ... In the quarters they r facing 4th seed pair of Murray and Soares.

At $25K China F5 Futures, Taizhou

[R2] (7) N Vijay Sunder Prasanth (IND,542) bt (Q) Jeson Petrombon (PHI,1241) 61 61
[R2] (8) N Sriram Balaji (IND,583) l Kuan-Yi Lee (TPE,834) 26 46
[R2] Ranjith Virali-Murugesan (IND,750) bt (Q) Zihao Xia (CHN,UNR) 61 64

Surprising loss of Bala against lowly ranked Taipei player ... Other hand expected dominating win from VSP and Ranjith against qualifiers for entering into the quarter.

At $10K Spain F9 Futures, Reus

[R2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,580) bt (WC) Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP,647) 63 36 75

[QF] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,580) vs Bastian Malla (CHI,468)

Good to see Sasi pull another three sets win after excellent upset win over top-300 British player ... In the quarters he is facing Chilean Bastian Malla.

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